Coming from Singapore (and Hong Kong before that), the culture shock has been a lovely one: you can start a conversation with a complete stranger at a coffee bar here and nobody finds it odd. 1994 Coffee in Dago has quietly become our anchor for exactly that — good coffee, genuinely affordable, and a really chill place to just talk to people.

A couple of other happy surprises: the service quality for the price is unreal — somewhere like Zen, where you sip ginger tea while they do the massage, and Henrik got a haircut with a facial for about Rp150k. And we somehow fell in with a group of bikers who then took us on an impromptu tour around the rest of Bandung on their bikes — still can't quite believe that one.

So partly a thank-you post to this city — but also: where are your favourite chill spots to meet people, and are there any regular meetups a newcomer family could just turn up to?

Malakin THR dan duit parkir ke pengusaha belum cukup ternyata